The audit & the motorcycles
What are "ordinary sensibilities"?
City Council voted this morning to direct the City Auditor to "initiate and oversee a program of recurring comprehensive efficiency assessments." The ordinance requires the auditor to contract with an external consultant within the next 12 months and for the same process to be repeated at least every three years.
"It's both a back to basics and a modernization of local government," said Mayor Kirk Watson, the measure's champion.
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My prediction is that, like the many other audits and analyses of city operations over the years, this one could very well yield useful information but will not result in significant change to the city's operations or finances.
Cracking down on motorcycle madness
My sense is that most motorcycles aren't inherently disruptive; they are made so by obnoxious users, either in the way they operate the machines or modify them. For a certain subset of the bikers, disturbing the peace is the point.
Hence an ordinance City Council approved today establishing a new offense for "offensive" vehicle noise.
